Metallurgist Day

Footage of the Donetsk Metallurgical Plant on the occasion of Metallurgist's Day, 2003.

The video shows the production process at the metallurgical plant, furnaces, workers, awarding ceremony, comments by the rector of Donetsk Technical University Alexander Minaev and the head of Donetsk Regional State Administration Anatoly Bliznyuk.

Metallurgist Day has been celebrated in Ukraine since June 3, 1993. In 2006, according to a presidential decree, the holiday was renamed into the Day of Metallurgical and Mining Workers.